A system and method for web browsing contemporaneously displays multiple web pages, advertisements, or other applications, preferably within a single window, for a user to view. In a preferred embodiment, a current web page, a past web page, a future web page, and/or an advertisement or other application are contemporaneously displayed in a single window. In this embodiment, the present invention tracks a past web page and renders it in a first panel, renders the current web page in a second panel, and identifies a hyperlink in the current web page to retrieve and render the future web page in a third panel. In other embodiments, a host provides a list of web pages that are to be displayed in the panels. In other embodiments, a user selects a list of web pages that are to be displayed in the panels. In other embodiments, hyperlinks are filtered and/or prioritized to determine which web pages are to be displayed in the panels. In this manner, the user contemporaneously views the current web page, the past page, and the future web page, or alternately, multiple web pages in the single window. Preferably, the present invention is implemented as a web browsing room in a three-dimensional space where walls of the rooms correspond to various ones of the aforementioned panels and a floor of which may be used to display advertisements or provide other applications. The user can view the web pages in the browsing room using various three-dimensional navigation techniques.
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1. A method for browsing web pages by a user comprising: receiving first web page data including a plurality of references, each of said plurality of references associated with web page data; rendering, via a first web browsing engine, a first web page in a first panel using said first web page data; receiving indicia, from a source other than the user, specifying a subset of said plurality of references to be automatically requested and rendered; automatically requesting web page data associated with said subset of said plurality of references; and rendering, via a second web browsing engine, additional web pages in another panel using said requested web page data.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said rendering additional web pages comprises rendering said additional web pages in a second panel.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said rendering additional web pages comprises rendering each of said additional web pages as a thumbnail image.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references in said first web page data.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references along with said first web page data.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references from a host associated with said first web page data.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia from a third party.
8. A method for browsing web pages by a user comprising: receiving first web page data including a plurality of references, each of said plurality of references associated with web page data; rendering, via a first web browsing engine, a first web page in a first panel using said first web page data; receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references to be automatically requested and rendered; automatically requesting web page data associated with said subset of said plurality of references; and rendering, via a second web browsing engine, additional web pages in a second panel using said requested web page data.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein said rendering additional web pages comprises rendering each of said additional web pages as a thumbnail image.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references in said first web page data.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references along with said first web page data.
12. The method of claim 8 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia as a prioritized list of references from a host associated with said first web page data.
13. The method of claim 8 , wherein said receiving indicia specifying a subset of said plurality of references comprises receiving said indicia from a third party.
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